This is the very first pattern I have ever written for consumption by other people! Forgive the mistakes!

Also - I forgot to add the fact that in the one on the model, I added a short row to the neck on the first row of the cowl neck. The center back of the poncho is halfway between the selvedge (ie. the markers that mark the decreases).

This was very fun to try to create a pattern and I welcome any constructive comments to improve! Thank you for your interest.